Hotmess Courtney Love reports that hotmess Britney Spears was molested as a kid. Usher is a girlyman. Captain Scuzzybutt Esq. will make Page Six one day. Natalie Portman's "tits." Barbara Cocoran's PR team. Presenting your late-edition Saturday Morning Gossip Roundup:
Kind of like a Harry Potter book, right? Michael Lohan's now Jon Gosselin's contracts expert. Nothing but squares at the Daily News. Robert Pattinson hates his life. Carrie Prejean: monumentally stupider than previously imagined. Here's your Saturday Morning Gossip Roundup:
• Rosie O'Donnell told Howard Stern yesterday that she "had a chance to romance" Angelina Jolie back when they were both single and they talked on the phone a few times, but they never ended going out for dinner as planned, alas. She also says Petra Nemcova once sent her "love signals" when the model was a guest on…
Barbara Corcoran, founder of the Corcoran Group and the Today Show's resident real estate expert person, is sort of a living legend in New York. Everyone knows her name. But do you know the secret to her success? Dick jokes!
Real estate legend Barbara Corcoran turns 60 today. Nobuyuki Matsuhisa is turning 60 today, too. Sharon Stone is 51. Record producer Rick Rubin is turning 46. Model Eva Herzigova is 36. Timbaland is 38. Prince Edward is 45. Edie Brickell is turning 43. Carrie Underwood is 26. Mad Men star Jon Hamm is 38. CNBC's David…
Six hundred thousand people lost their jobs last month. Our economy faces this pressing question: "I wonder if rich people could live on only $500,000 a year?"
♦ Two months after buying a townhouse in Brooklyn, Barbara Corcoran has reportedly purchased two more multiple-residence brownstones in the borough. [Page Six]
♦ Highside Capital principal David Thomas and his wife, Economist correspondent Joanne Ramos, have paid $5.59 million for a four-bedroom condo in the…
» Claude Wasserstein (left), who has been separated from financier Bruce Wasserstein since last year, has purchased the 7,000-square-foot duplex penthouse at 995 Fifth Avenue, which was listed at $47.5 million. Her new neighbors in the building will include socialite Daphne Guinness and Philosophy cosmetics founder…
The bubbly, self-proclaimed real estate queen founded the Corcoran Group in 1978 and sold her stake in 2001. These days she bops around as a columnist, pundit, and star on Shark Tank.
Barbara Corcoran, the wondrous strange founder of the real estate brokerage house Corcoran Group, is joining the Daily News this Friday. As per the press release, "Her new weekly column, 'Ask Barbara,' will debut September 7 in the Daily News Your Home section." The section "is a weekly guide to finding, furnishing…
John Stossel may have gotten an eyeful as he dined at the Central Park Boathouse recently. The "20/20" investigator was at a table close to Barbara Corcoran when friends told the real-estate royal she'd lost weight. "Show us your butt," cried one, and Corcoran obliged, dropping trou ...
• How can you not love Nicole Richie? The saintly thing can't help but share every last sprinkle of blow she's got. [Defamer]
• The reservation line for Mr. Chow's Tribeca outpost is up and running; even if you're nobody, you can snag a table for Saturday's opening. [Eater]
• After reading an interview in which…
The Corco-devil (we really just love the sound of it and resist change) has been hard at work, it seems — and not just ensuring that no pleb will ever live in Manhattan or preparing for her new television projects. She's blogging about it, too. More disturbingly, she writes in the voice of an imaginary mouse and thus…
The carnivorous hun of real estate, Barbara Corcoran, is interviewed in the latest Time Out New York; as it turns out, she rather likes it when we call her the Corcodevil. We suppose this means we have to think of a new nickname. Bitch just totally ruined it for us.
The Washington Post takes a look at the current crop of real estate-centered reality television shows, noting that if we're watching real estate rather than buying it, perhaps the habitat bubble of darkness truly is deflating. Nevertheless, the Queen says otherwise:
• Those News Corp kids sure do know how to throw an incredibly odd Christmas party. Weirdness aside, things were moments of normalcy: after the picture at right was taken, she ended up in the broom closet with dude dressed like a giant beaver-like thing.
• It was inevitable, really, that LIRR tickets ended up on…
• We've spent all weekend ignoring real estate harpy Barbara Corcoran's secret hideaway as featured in the Times, as we didn't want to express our rage at the cost of our "wit." Alas, time hasn't helped our case. So: NICE FUCKING PLACE. Did you sell it to yourself? Did you charge yourself a big sexy broker fee? We…
• We knew LES stand-by Tonic was sacrificed in the name of condominium development. What we didn't know, however, was that the complex was going to be big, blue, and from planet fugly. [Curbed]
• Beware the Fire Island Shake & Bake. And no, it doesn't involve getting stoned in the Meat Rack. [Datalounge]
• You, too,…
Holy fuck. Barbara Corcoran is quitting the real-estate business. The Observer's "The Real Estate" blog, which just broke the news, says that she's leaving the Corcoran Group to found — wait for it — a television-production company.
